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quadrivium
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- educational program
- Part of
- liberal arts education
- Has part
- music
- Follows
- trivium
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thumb|upright=1.0|For most medieval scholars, who believed that God created the universe according to geometric and harmonic principles, [[science—particularly geometry and astronomy—was linked directly to the divine. To seek these principles, therefore, would be to seek God.]]
The quadrivium (Latin for "four ways") was a group of four subjects—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy—taught in medieval European pedagogy. Together with the trivium, they comprised the traditional liberal arts curriculum. Beginning with Petrarch in the 14th century, studia humanitatis and its later offshoots gradually displaced the quadrivium and trivium as a curricular structure.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “quadrivium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.